The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-04

uO~ ii u HulloeI vi u"ei'ilS"
and houses of all kinds, destroying
crops, etc.
The heat July % in the Shenandoah
Valley was intense. The thermomete.'
reached go. Such continued hot
weather has not been eXperieE ced for
many years in the valley.
The citizens of Greenville have held
a meeting and recommended that the
city subscribe 100000 to the proposed
Carolina, Knoxville and Western
Railroad.
Dispatch from various points in
Illinois show that intense heat pre-
vailed in the central part of the State
on Friday At Lincoln the mercury
reached l02 in the shade. A number
of prostrations-some fatal-were re-
ported.
John Taylor, president of the Nor
mon Church, was buried Friday. Num-
bers viewed the corpse as it lay in the
tabernacle open to the public sight. a
son of Taylor's tried to make speech,
but was compelled to desist.
The Interstate Encampment was
opened at Spartanburg Tuesday with
ar oration Dv Hon. D. r. Duncan.
The State exhibit is very complete,
containing specimens Of everything
raised or produced in the State. The
is thronged with visitors.
The high trestle over Chauga Creek
in Oconce County was carried away by
high water on Tuesday. Freight and
passengers are being transferred until
the trestle can be rebuilt. The Air
Line Trestle over the Tugaloo River
was damaged August 2 by the heavy
rains and no trains crossed it.
Minnesota's high license law has
been in effect nearly month and has
resulted at Minneapolis in lessening
the number of sale ons, while bringing
more money in,o the treasury, and i'll
directly in suppressing illegal liquor
selling. Last year 3334 saloons, at $.
each, paid in Sl67, coo, while this year
1876 saloons have paid in $1,000 each.
New York city suffered from heat
again July %, twenty-five cases Of
heat prostration resulting. Of these
five were fatal. In the evening there
was a severe thunder storm, in tbs
midst of which the Young Mems
Christian Association building, Brook
lyn, was struck by lightning. Several
occupants were badly stunned.
Thomas G.. Evans, of Nanticoke, Pa,
a delegate to the Republican County
Convention last fall, has been sem
fenced by Judge Woodward to pay
800 fine, the cost of the prosecution
and thirt ty days in Jail for attempting
10 sell the votes of seventy delegates
at SO apiece to Arnold Bertels, one Of
the candidates for sheriff.
Mrs. Fannie Hayne, Of Tuscola, III,
was gorcd and trampled to death by
mad bu,!! last Tuesday while att .mpt-
ing to drive the brute out of the door
yard. She fought the animal as long
as her strength held out, and as no one
came t. her assistance her 'ife wcs
tramp1ed out and she was shockingly
mangled before the eyes of her two
little children.
Summerville had a sensation Tues
day in the shape of the marriage of a
native bellesto a real live English Earl.
The young lady's name lis Miss Ma i
Frances Nose, and the gentleman's
name on the invitation cards read {:
George Richard Simons Wiser, Earl
of Harinxsma. The people had her e,
tofore thought he had too much of q
Teutonic accent to be "Eng';sh, you
know"
A special from Sioux City, Iowa,
says: 1.-THE Missouri river continues
to cut the bank in front of this city,
several hundred feet OF valuable prop
erty having gone out of sight in the
last twentv-four hours. The Illinois
Central, S oux City and Pacific and
Milwaukee railroads have joined in an
effort to stop the cutting, and are
working 3C9 men. Engineers say they
can control it in time"
Geo. S. Peters, United States Attor-
ney for Utah 'Territol :, on July 60
filed suit against the trustees and
managers of the Mormon Church un-
der the Edmunds-Tucker law, in be-
half of the United States, to disincor-
porate said Church and WIND up its
business. The petition asks the ap-
pointment of receiver, and that all
the books, papers, etc., belonging to
the church be turned over to him. to-
gether with all deeds, not"s and prop
erty of every description. The healing
is set for September Is.
The election for State and Legisla-
tive offices in Kentucky resulted in
the choice of the Democratic ticket by
majorities estimated at rom 25,0Go to
10000. Gen. Buckner, the Democratic
candidate for Governor, ran ahead OF
his ticket. The Democrats carried the
town of Lexington for the first time in
several years. The Legislature will be
about ninety Democratic majority on
Joint ballot. Two labor men and three
or four prohibitionjsts arc elected to
the Legislature.
The American Board OF Commits
sioners for Foreign Missions received a
cablegram from the treasurer Of t e
famine relief fund at Constantinop .,
saying that five thousand people at
Albania have nothing to eat. The
number is increasing. Other towns
ask help. Albania is the centre Of the
Cicilian plain, ordinarily so fertile, but
this year absolutely barren on account
of the drouth. A little over $1,000 has
already been contributed in this coun-
try for the relief of the starving peo-
pie. Further contributions are great
ly needed and may be forwarded to
Langdon S. Ward, Somerset street,
Boston. Gifts can be sent by tel
graph so that in three days they will
buy bread.
A special from Richmond, Ind.
dated July %, says: "A terrible acci
dent occurred near this city to-day, in
which three persons and two horses
were killed and a fourth person badly
injured. The killed are Joseph Rich,
a farmer, aged 80; hi, baby and his
wife's mother, Hannah Newcomb,
aged 81; his wife being the only one
that escaped alive. He drove on the
Panhandle crossing at the western
limits of the city, as he had safely
done many times before, after hearing
the whistle, but this time the train
was coming thirty miles an hour and